Is Forza Motorsport on Xbox Game Pass? Cheap ways to play

Forza Motorsport has been out for over a couple of weeks now, which means developer Turn 10 Studios is now fully focused on post-launch support for the racing sim. The game’s first major update launched earlier this month, which was followed by a hotfix, and now Turn 10 has offered more details on its next major update.

As Cities: Skylines 2 is now out on some platforms, fans of the previous instalment must be umming and ahing about parting with cash for it — especially if you've only just spent megabucks on Spider-Man 2. Two big spends within a week is a lot...

A recent SEC filing by Microsoft has revealed that CEO Satya Nadella’s pay targets this time around have reduced growth targets for the company’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Spotted by Axios, the new target for Nadella’s performance-based incentive for the last fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2023, was a growth of 4.4 percent for Xbox Content and Services revenue.

Insomniac has a tendency to cram its games full of additive bells and whistles at launch, with plenty of modes and additional features being available in the developer’s titles to allow players to get the most out of the games. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, however, will have one or two such features missing at launch- though they will be coming in the not-too-distant future.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 mightn't be out yet, but if your excitement is so vast you're already pondering a second play-through, you'll be pleased to know the game will — like its predecessor — be getting a New Game Plus mode, but it'll be arriving sometime after launch.

Insomniac Games has said Spider-Man 2 will get a New Game Plus mode after its release.

Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard games won't appear on Xbox Game Pass until next year. On the Official Xbox Podcast, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer claimed that players wouldn't be seeing a big drop of those titles immediately, due to the lengthy regulatory challenges the company faced in its buyout attempt. Since it was uncertain whether the acquisition would be approved by Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) until recently, Xbox wasn't able to do the groundwork for adding the catalogue to their gaming subscription service. Ahead of the deal's closure, Activision Blizzard confirmed on Twitter that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and newly-launched Diablo IV won't be coming to Game Pass soon, but Spencer's statement covers older titles as well.

Update 1.0 for Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport is now live on Xbox Series X/S and PC. It fixes several issues, including crashes and improves stability. If you’ve faced the former in Builders Cup after upgrading your car and entering Open Practice during the Fox Body Challenge on Watkins Clen, this should address that.

Insomniac has revealed that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will have a new game plus mode.

Microsoft has confirmed the list of new wave 2 games coming to throughout the final weeks of October 2023. The highlight of the list is Cities: Skylines 2 on PC, although there’s also the addition of Dead Space Remake on EA Play.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.

Microsoft has confirmed the remaining batch of games that will be joining the Xbox Game Pass library through the rest of October 2023, headlined by the Dead Space remake, F1 Manager 23, Like a Dragon: Ishin! and the big new release of Cities: Skylines 2.